"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ~ Alexandre Dumas
Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing -- and does it well. ~ E. Merrill Root
The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~ Allan K. Chalmers
Happiness, to some elation, is to others, mere stagnation. ~ Amy Lowell
In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future. ~ André Gide
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. ~ Anne Frank
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. ~ Aristotle
Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness. ~ Bertha Damon
Each moment that you are happy is a gift to the rest of the world. ~ Harry Palmer
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. ~ Mary Stuart